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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930.
Mr. Horatio Bottomley attended, for his public examination at the London Bankruptcy Court recently.
His amended statement of affairs showed liabilities of £116,769, of which, £113,809 were unsecured, and
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from-two-book debts of the face value of £11.500, the realisable value of which was uncertain.
Of the Hahilitics," £109,994 were returned na due to the trustee in the 1022 bankruptcy proceedings. being in respect of the unsatisfied balance of debts according to "the proof of debt.
Mr. Bottomley, questioned by Mr. Waterer, the Deputy Oficial Re ceiver, said that he had falled on three previous occasions, but on the first two the receiving orders were rascinded, and the adjudications were annulled, the debts being paid in full.
His Freelance Work.
He said, regarding the third oc- casion, that he had been engaged as editor and editorial adviser, and he was adjudged bankrupt August 4, 1929. He was told that his ranking liabilities then were £50,000 outt and his nserts £29,995.
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Mr. Botturaley said that his ex- amination on that 'ccensian was not technically concluded, and he was not in a position to apply for his discharge. He came out of Maid- stone Gaol in July 1927 and began as a freelance journalist, earning in that way up to March 1998 about £12,000. Our of that sum he paid to the trustee in the 1922 failure a sum of £3,260 under arrangement with the court. He alan published two books. He lost money over them-approximately a few hun. dred pounds.
He said that during 1925 and 1999 be obtained about £3,000 from various newspapers for libel. He also obtained judgment against Mr. H. J. Houston for £1,500 in a libel action, but had received nothing.
Insuficient Capital.
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IN GETTING UNDER COYERS, BUMPS HANGER. COAT AND TROUSERS SUDE OFF. ROLLS THEM INTO.WAD AND TOSSES. THEM TO FOOT OF
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WHEN GREY HAIR IS UNWELCOME.
D!
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Applications of henna are, of course, ideal for auburn hair that solutely harmless; in fact, in the is turning grey, and this e-ab-
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He registered a private company, the Phonix Press Company, in 1929.
There are women who look charin- to run a new weekly journal, John with silver hair and not one Blunt. The company had insuffi- day older than they would were cient working capital to be a suc- it golden ress, and in October 1929 an order there are others, and these are in raven-black. But was made for its compulsory wind- ing-up. At that date the company's the majority, to whom grey hair oks showed that it owed him gives added years and imparts a about £15,000. Certain figures were allow tinge to the complexion. put to Mr. Bottomley by the Deputy Official Receiver, and Mr. To carry grey hair successfully Bottomley said that he did not say one's complection must be fresh, that the figures were correct. Heone's eyes bright, and the eyebrows hair that is turning grey. It can was not responsible for them and and eyelashes should always bebe made at home, and when brush- had not checked them.
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Mr. Bottoinley said that he must look into the matter. Considerable sums were paid to him direct for
Premature Greyness. shares in the Phenix Press.
If you know that your com
Premature greyness generally The examination was adjourned plexion is too sallow and your eyes
runs in families, and when one until May 21 on the Deputy Official their best framed in silver hairtion to the trouble special care too. lacking in brilliancy to look knows that there is a predisposi Receiver's application.
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take leave of English friends with the remark, "Well, I give you that While other inventors combine
old English greeting Allo!" He tells the merchant that the word stems from the Latin and the
PLAY IN BERLIN.
Chinese employers pay less than Teutonic languages into an artifi-
he does for their coolies. The mer cial mixture, easily learnt in a Hoar, China! a propaganda. play chant discharges his men, bas s couple of hours, the Swedish philo with an. anti-British tendency, was fight with one, falls into the stream logist has rationalised the English played by a Moscow company at and is drowned language to such an extent that it the Theatre in der Stresemana! The gunpont captain demands the can be acquired in a few days. He strasse last month. The company, I murderer's surrender or the lives of calls it World-English," or "Uni which was from Meierbold's Mos two other coolics in retribution. A versal English." For many years cow State Theatre, was touring in Chinese ship's boy bangs himsel Professor Zachrisson has been Berlin, and misgivings were elaborating this idea of developing pressed in German official circles as bring misfortune on the man behind ex at the captain's door in order to English into a universal tongue, to the wisdom of permitting the it. The coolfes, draw lots, the and the evolution of English in the play.
choice falls on an old man and a United States of Auerien has given The play is about the coolies of young one; and they are strangled him some hints as to what the Enga Chinese quayside, who live under before the captain, his crew, the lish of the future will be like. In the shade of a gunboat anchored in ladies, a missionary, núna and earrying out these principles he has midstream. The gunboat's lifebelts others. The gunboat is ordered by arrived at a suitable idiom, casy to tell her nationality she is the telegram to Shanghai, where a re understand everywhere and, despite." Kockchafer." There is a nervolution tas broken out, and as the its air of artificiality, never losing chant, possible American, but more curtain falls the coolies are masser! contact with the present-day tongue probably. British, for he smokes a on the quayside, shaking their fista AFTER YOU GO AWAY of the Anglo-Saxon nations. piph. All the British characters at the symbol of foreign domina. Dr. Zachrisson's "auxiliary laa smoke pipes, but have difficulty in tion and shouting in chorus. guage "has been examined by at keeping them alight; the gunboat Away! Away! China is roar least five prominent Englishmen, captain, is so attached to his that ingiber of who have expressed their sympathy it is his constant companion on theThe opening scenes, with the with the project. When the pambridge.
pipe-smoking captain and the jazz: phist setting forth be principles There is champagne jazzing and ing ladies without appears in print fit in expected feminine society on board Alalmost incredibly naïs and groter ralurtly it will be seen whether fournalist, the correspondent of que. They are probably meant to not the British people will like such the North China Daily News, is be so; after all, a caricature and a projection into the future of among the company. He carries not a portrait is intended. The Shakespeare's language, and whe- Landon morning newspaper, and closing scenes, with the drawing of ther the originator has been able to always says "Halle on leaving, lots among the coolies and the free himself from the tangled ways that he reminds one of the jovial execution, had some dramatic
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